Word: riche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah wanted to stay near Iran until the consequences of the Ayatullah Khomeini's return home became clear; if events went against the Shah, he might then take up residence somewhere in Europe. Privately, the Shah fears that he might be treated in the U.S. as a rich refugee rather than a visiting head of state. He also believes that he would be politically compromised by fleeing to the U.S. More than that, he is so outraged by what he feels was the betrayal of the Carter Administration that he has no wish to seek sanctuary...
...Taft) to rudimentary (Vaughn as Wilson) to outright ghoulish (John Anderson and Eileen Heckart as the Franklin Roosevelts). No matter how intriguing the cosmetics, however, the characters mostly remain lifeless: Backstairs at the White House might be more aptly titled Backstairs at Madame Tussaud's. - Frank Rich...
...much loftier? We all know why he wants to come to the Loeb: a good location in a big Eastern city, with a built-in audience of "intellectuals" hungering for innovative theater: superior facilities; more sources of potentially big money, which apart from the University itself include a rich body of alumni, as well as grants from the usual foundations; the presence of students, which Brustein convincingly argues is conducive to creativity; and on some level, perhaps, the poetic justic of being asked to leave the Yale School of Drama and then hitching up to arch-rival Harvard; blah blah...
Except for the fact that Dave ends up killing his father--who deserves it--there is nothing extraordinary about the plot; it's just like countless fairy tales. At times it even seems trite. Dave, the handsome gypsy, takes up with Susan, a rich blonde American girl. Dave, the dark and mysterious gypsy, dreams of California. And, typically, neither the romance nor the emigration can ever come to pass. Although Groffo's hired killers botch their job, they manage to gash Dave's face. Susan is too horrified to help and not gypsy enough to understand. Dave turns to Sharon...
...team continues to award the famous Three-Lemons rating to The Most Embarrassing Player of the Game. Tom "Silk" Russo's performance of unnatural acts to score from the low post area against several rival earned him one of his two awards this season. Rich "Machine Gun" Bengel also chalked up the Three-Lemon for setting a personal scoring high of 24 points against Dean Junior College...